1st Edition

Dreaming Liberatory Futures for STEM Education Implications for Teaching, Research, and Policy

164 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

164 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This collection articulates the ways historically predominant STEM education practices uphold systemic modes of oppression. It gathers editors and contributors who are experienced in empirical and theoretical methods and represent a variety of minoritized lived experiences. Together they consider possible pathways to rework STEM education into truly equitable and just pedagogies. Chapters examine... Read more

1. Introduction  2. What if Physics Were Not Afraid to Die?: Crip Time, Abolition, and the Possibility of Liberatory Physics  3. Reimagining Recognition: STEM Ethics and the Face of Technology  4. Rethinking “Bare Life” in Physics Education: Dreaming Disabled Futures  5. Towards Remaking Asian/American Relationships with STEM Education  6. Fattening and Undisciplining Physics  7. Disturbing the CiSTEM: Queerness as a Catalyst for Change  8. Liberation is in the Making: Reimagining Learning Assistant Training by Centering Care, Shared Power, Reflexive Practice, and Historicization  9. From Universality to Pluriversality: Challenging Mathematical Hegemony to Envision Liberatory STEM Futures  10. Dreams of A Liberatory Engineering Education: Epistemic Untethering as A Practice of Freedom  Epilogue

Biography

Amy D. Robertson is a retired Research Professor of Physics who spent most of her career at Seattle Pacific University.

Trà Huỳnh is an Assistant Professor of Physics at Western Washington University.

Katemari Rosa is a Professor of Physics and Outreach Coordinator at the Federal University of Bahia in Brazil.

Verónica N. Vélez is Professor of Secondary Education and Education and Social Justice in Woodring College at Western Washington University.